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European information exchange service between harbour areas

Objectif

EIES intend to set up advanced communications between 4 harbour areas (Santander in Spain, Bordeaux and Brest in France, Bremen in Germany), based on the access to an inter-harbour information system providing information on harbour actors and services.
Finalisation of the implementation of all the services
implementation of the communications server
Realisation of tests
well advanced pilot
well advanced evaluation
organisation of MARCOM97
Expected Impact
awareness and strong involvement of local and regional actor concerning the interest of advanced communications for harbours

Main contributions to the programme objectives:
Main deliverables
Advanced communications between harbour areas
Contribution to the programme
Awareness and strong involvement of local and regional actor concerning the interest of advance communications for harbours
Technical Approach
The analysis of user requirements led by the users groups of the 4 EIES harbours shows that from a general point of view the EIES harbour users are interested in having access to information on harbour companies and services, in telecooperation, in integration of EDI based on existing standards (Edifact, Odette...) and iny E-mail.
Therefore, the EIES system has been designed to provide the user (who is supposed to have a PC operating under Windows 95) with a specific EIES user interface integrating the user's office applications and giving access to the 5 previously defined services. :
The Blue Pages service provides multimedia information on harbour companies. Port Entry Guide provides information on harbour services from a map, precise representation of the harbour area.
Four kinds of accesses are planned: by ISDN, ATM, Internet for the fixed access and DSRR (Digital Short Range Radio), DECT and INMARSAT for the mobile access.
Summary of Trial
In the EIES network architecture, the Internet server acts as a server for the classical Internet applications (E-mail, http, directory search, database search and retrieval, ftp...) an IP router interconnects the four LANs and the communications server acts as a gateway between different types of protocols : Ethernet, TCP/IP, ISDN, ATM, DSRR, DECT, INMARSAT.
With regard to the ATM configuration, each harbour should have 3 Virtual Paths (512 kbps each one).
Key Issues
To get the complete information for the Bremen harbour Blue Pages and Port Entry Guide databases (more than 3000 entries)
To set up directly http over ATM
To implement the interfaces DECT/ATM and DSRR - INMARSAT/ISDN
To produce three guidelines : harbour telework (for the GAT chain), harbour applications for SMEs (for the GAS chain) and Enhanced DSRR.
Contributions to UMTS : Satellite/Terrestrial radio integration, Mobility user requirements and 64-128 kbps wireless multimedia

Achievements
Actual Achievements
Harbour user requirements for the 4 EIES harbours which are small and medium harbours
Functional and technical design of the EIES system from the user interface, service and network point of view
implementation of the EIES user interface
implementation of the data structure and content of Brest Blue Pages, the data structure of Bremen Blue Pages, the general data structure of the Port Entry Guide
ATM accesses and equipment in Bremen
Mbone tools set up and tested on the Bremen ATM network
Organisation of MARCOM96 in Brest in November 14th and 15th, related to advanced communications for harbours

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Régime de financement

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

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FT Expertel
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